Morning Briefing: Top stories on Friday, February 3
Good morning everyone. Here's today's briefing from the early crew here on the Irish Examiner newsdesk.
Here are the nine stories we are highlighting on the irishexaminer.com home page right now.

A confidential report compiled for An Bord Pleanála has cleared the organisation’s director of planning of wrongdoing following a series of damning media allegations.
A Cork woman whose son suffered life-changing injuries after a preventable pregnancy-related condition went undiagnosed has welcomed “life-saving” new guidelines and called for their swift implementation.
Former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has said his Cork mother and Galway father would be "ever so chuffed" that he is in the running to represent Ireland at Eurovision 2023.
Ireland should have fewer hospitals offering 24/7 emergency surgery and instead run a network of emergency centres to give patients better care.
Thousands of euro worth of jewellery stolen from a house at Tivoli was found hidden under a rock behind a wheelie bin on Dunbar Street in Cork and now the man who stole it during a burglary has been jailed for 18 months.
Bang for your buck at lovely Knockanevin with beautiful countryside views
An intervention by GAA leadership in the Kilmacud Crokes-Glen All-Ireland senior club football saga would have been “the worst thing we could possibly do”, according to director general Tom Ryan.
I have learned so much from writing this column about how different children learn and I am a far better teacher for it. I have moved from a devotion to my subject towards a devotion to my students.
The 26-year-old, originally from Georgia USA but now living in Cork, says, 'for a month there I probably had breakfast, lunch and dinner and didn’t have to pay for any of them because I was going on dates for all of them'

Today will be mostly cloudy with isolated drizzle and mist and just occasional bright periods. Highest temperatures of 10 to 12 degrees with a moderate to fresh southwesterly breeze.
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